skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One tidbit to add about scopes: some biological scopes do use "epi" illumination like metallurgical scopes. It's commonly used on high end scopes, in combination with laser illumination and fluorescence. They are much more complicated and require much better alignment than a regular trans illumination scope.

I suppose you might be able to get slightly better resolution using a shorter wavelength, but at that point, it requires a lot of technical skill and environmental conditions and time and money, Just getting to the point you've reached (and knowing what the limitations are) can be satisfying in itself.
Boothbay VETS in Maine has been making not-quite-as-small towable shelters for homeless veterans in Maine since 2019. https://boothbay-vets.com/in-the-press/
I’m curious as to how you think it’ll be our doom. As for the ethics in it, there are two ways to look at it in my opinion. One is yours, the other is to accept that AI is coming and at least work to help your civilisation “win”. I doubt we’ll see any form of self aware AI in our lifetimes, but the AI tools are obviously going to become extremely powerful tool. I suspect we’ll continue heading down the “cyberpunk” road leading to the dystopian society we read about in the 80/90ies, but that’s not really the doom of mankind as such. It just sucks.

As a former history major I do think it’ll be interesting to follow how AI shifts the power balances. We like to pretend that we’ve left the “might makes right” world behind, but AI is an arms race, and it’ll make some terrible weapons. Ethics aside you’re going to want to have the best of those if you want your civilisation to continue being capable or deciding which morals it wants to follow.
Airborne Tire Wear Particles: Emission Factors Are Lower Than Expected
Interesting story! From the title, though, I thought it'd go into how the plague somehow led to the literal preservation of records of Jesus's birth.
You had me until you said “white males”. No evil corporations are not inspiring to oppress the White male.

What skills do you have to make you competitive in a saturated market?

Do you really think corporations are going to hire less qualified minorities if it impacts their bottom line?
Me, I was forced to use a model M for several years and threw it to the trash the moment I realized I could plug any shitty membrane keyboard bought in random stores. These "vintage" fashions usually come and go for either unexplainable reasons or just flimsy warmness/feeling arguments. Like vinyl, instant cameras or the like. Notice in all of these one almost always spends thousands of dollars and yet end up with objectively worse sound/image reproduction. It is not nostalgia, since it often involves people who never used them back in the day. Or maybe that actually explains why they buy them.
Why is this downvoted? The comment sounds plausible.

The Chinese mob (wink wink) has the biggest money laundering operation in the world. They have brokers who pick up (source) and deliver (destination) the cash. They do all the currency conversion. And then have an internal market to auction the conversions. All over Chinese government controlled networks like WeChat. Very clever.

The Triads have been doing this kind of dark market money transfers for decades (it's mentioned in the book Mr Nice like it was old news in the 80s). I've met Chinese people who use it to send/receive from family and investors in mainland China. I've met agents who investigate the networks of companies Chinese mobsters make to cover up their tracks.

Financial Times doc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjGIp7kdS6E#t=8m32
It’s very different than Japan. Japan is more like the US, capitalist where some companies are cozy with the government.

China is a communist state, where the state or affiliated entity is an owner or partner in significant enterprises. Many industrial commodities have national security interests.

Chinese intelligence entities have embedded engineers in a variety of sectors… a few years ago a guy got caught embedding turbine designs inside of nature photos from GE Vernova. Another recently got caught exfiltrating aviation trade secrets, including turbofan designs.

This type of intelligence and technology transfer is no doubt helpful to Comac, the PLA controlled aircraft manufacturer.
Yes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z18shcK6mhk
How did they get the debug symbols?
I'm not sure about CSC (China Scholarship Concil) funded students, but being an intern funded by a Chinese university myself some years ago, I didn't need to report anything back beyonds a final scientific report signed by my US advisor.

Tangential: in my personal experience, the need for CSC funding for UK PhD programs is due to the very little available funding opportunities for foreign students. Doing a PhD without financial support in an expensive country is ridiculous for most families in China.

Most students would actually try to avoid that if it's possible to secure funding in alternative ways (like the paid PhD programs elsewhere in the world), as CSC funding comes with a requirement of returning to China after finishing the study and this limits opportunities of the students to work abroad afterwards.
It’s a question, but it wasn’t my question.
So is VictoriaMetrics
I think Karp would say that events like 9/11 or 10/7 represent attacks on the west by vicious enemies who can’t be negotiated with, and that the only way to defend ourselves is to build weapons and surveillance systems that outstrip their capacity to harm.

To your point about his beliefs not being mine, I think he has a fundamental misunderstanding of how both of those events happened, which is ironic, because the prelude and aftermath of both attacks are revisions on the same theme.
I was actually a tiny bit disappointed - I was hoping for a closer coupling of tetris-logic to life-logic :-) Per https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Universal_computer the first turing-machine-in-Life goes back to 2000, and "building a CPU to run code" is at this point the "obvious" way to do it. See https://nicholas.carlini.com/writing/2020/intro-to-circuits-... for a tutorial with a (circular) "final goal of designing an Intel 4004 and using it to simulate the game of life."
All of these worked in the past without sending any data off the device.

But now you suddenly need the cloud to have it recognize the Eiffel tower.
I really like Timothy Snyder's take on this.

Breakthroughs in information technology always cause disruption in the political meaning (wars and chaos). It was like that when writing was invented (making big organized religions possible), it was the same with printing press (allowing reformation and big political movements), it was similar with radio (which allowed 20-th century style totalitarian regimes).

Each time the legacy powers struggled to survive and wars started. It took some time for the societies to adapt and regulate the new technologies and create a new stable equilibrium.

It's not surprising that it's the same with internet. We have unstable wild-west style information oligarchy forming before our eyes. The moguls build continent-spanning empires. There's no regulation, the costs are negligible, and the only ones trying to control it are the authoritarians. And the new oligarchs are obviously fighting with their thought-control powers against the regulation with all they've got.

It won't end without fireworks.
I'm sure plenty of people had no trouble -- but personally I bought one after a shoulder surgery hoping I could use it to type without having to move my hands together, and I failed to ever get to the point where I could comfortably type with it. After trying for a couple weeks, I bought a Keychron Q11 QMK -- this is also split but with an otherwise standard layout -- and had no issues learning it. I actually still use it on my primary workstation even though I can physically use a normal keyboard.
I think it's very unlikely. "All it takes" was tongue in cheek.

(If it was likely, it would have already happened)
> In the UK Chinese funded international masters/phd students have to send back to China reports about their fellow students as a condition of their funding.

That's a major claim, do you have a link to an article or source?
I want Visual Studio / Winforms style drag-and-drop WYSIWYG page building for React. Have a bunch of widgets to choose from (from a UI kit like MUI), position them on the page, edit their properties and events right in the GUI, and have it produce functional code that I can further tweak.

I know there's often this weird mentality that WYSIWYG editors are for noobs, but I don't mind. They have their place. I love visual UI work. Dreamweaver was helpful for its time. Figma is great but doesn't produce functional components.
"Many only consider the negatives of euthanizing those too old to work, however our model suggests..."
> This essentially erases their culture and robs the children of any freedom of identity. From single-digit ages they are being forced (under threat of discipline) to provide economic security for their parents. That is sickening.

What are you referring to here? Care to share some sources?
Friend says these are called “pinha” in Brazil though goes by other names as well. Nh sounds like ny in English or n-tilde in Spanish.
The same logic can be used to justify all kinds of awful stuff though. From putting a scantily dressed woman in the thumbnail to just straight up lying in the video to blow people's minds. You have to draw the line somewhere because you just don't want to do crappy things, unless you're a narcissist and/or sociopath.
L. Frank Baum Sitting Bull editorial (1890) [pdf]
> For the same reason people don't think it's OK to rob a bank and donate the money to charity.

I have a problem with violence...
Have you actually ever been to China or spoken with any Chinese people in China? (Not expats, but, say, taxi drivers and businessmen.)

Frankly, they're practically as free as Americans and Europeans. In some respects they're more free. There's far less violent crime and property crime, too, so living in the city feels more free in ways which should be obvious -- women can walk around alone at night and not fear for their own safety. Imagine walking around Memphis at midnight, alone and unarmed, or parts of London... even as a man, it would be very ill-advised.

China's business culture, also, is very explicitly laissez-faire, competition between firms is brutal, and there's less red tape than you'd get in Europe.

They do a lot of things right.

> treating your own people as disposable serfs

How do you mean? How is the average Shanghai banker any more or less of a serf than a banker in Frankfurt or Indianapolis? Democracy?
It's been done to a limited extent by Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania already

https://vm.ee/en/news/government-restricts-entry-estonia-rus...

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2050380/latvia-to-a....

https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2050524/lithuania-d...

As you can see it can be done, is being done, and ought to be done across the whole of EU given the number of unexplained fires and explosions of factories, warehouses, and shopping centres in Europe, explosives planted in packages sent via DHL, an attempt to assassinate the CEO of Rheinmetal, cutting undersea cables, and disruption of GPS signal used by civil aviation.
And India assassinates people, not just spies on them.
There seems to be a new system in place which takes these amoral CEOs and does make them accountable.
It's a full-blown relapse to Cold War anti-intellectualism.

Not good, but the incompetent capitalist class cheers on the scapegoating.
It’s pretty trivial to commit a variety of frauds against you, and moderate difficult to get valid ID impersonating you. I worked with a non-federal US government entity that employed many investigators who spent 80% of their time looking into what you’re talking about. With the exception of simple frauds addressed with facial recognition (usually people impersonating dead or disabled relatives to avoid consequences of DWI or divorce), they felt that they weren’t scratching the surface.

The US is plagued by stupid right wing people who think that ID is satanic, and stupid left wing people who think that ID by nature will marginalize poor people. Because we’ve allowed the federal government to outsource ID to the states, the US is stuck with inadequate identity framework for a long time.
It does not sound like that at all.

There is plenty of data on your device that isn’t “your data” simply due to existing on your device.
Infectious diseases killed Victorian children at alarming rates
> In fact, our current climate crisis is a demonstrated market failure.

This wrong on so many levels. There is neither a climate crisis nor a market failure. If any, central economies exhibited (and exhibit) higher levels of pollution and destruction of public good.

Mindless repetition of the climate crisis trope has done more damage to the cause than carbon emissions.
You need to build houses. The government has to plan neighbourhoods, finance the building, extend public transport.

The market is great at selling gadgets, but health, transport, education, housing, have to be directed by the government.
/s ???
I remember well the time of replaceable batteries, they were changed much more often than they should have been. More batteries are changed - more lithium waste.
And I also remember very well how when the phone fell, these batteries flew out and were damaged, and I also remember well how these batteries burn from mechanical damage and they cannot be extinguished, because it is a chemical reaction.

There are pros and cons everywhere, so far I see more cons.
> while it’s tempting to use the infinitely-scalable object storage (like S3), the good old block storage is just cheaper and more performant

How is it cheaper? Object storage is cheaper per GB. Does using s3 have another component that is more expensive, maybe a caching layer? Is the storage format significantly less efficient? Are you not using a vpc enpoint to avoid egress charges?
If you've changed your career to support some goal, here the public good, isn't it natural to be strongly convinced that your work is advancing that goal?
The UTF-32 thing was confusing me. It is mentioned in multiple places but never explicit if it was a temporary design decision to ease the transition, perfectly reasonable, or the design going forward in perpetuity, in which case I would love to understand why something like bstr (WTF-8 under the covers) doesn't fit the bill. I've gathered so far that it might be the former, but if it is the later I would still like to know more.
Informed consent is sexy. In the Apple ecosystem, we’re literally paying customers. This is ridiculous. This line you parroted is ridiculous. This needs to stop.
This is the view of someone who never had to spend a night in the street, in the cold, that never suffered something like this. Yeah, in a perfect world any of this would be needed. But I can assure you that any homeless person would be more than happy to have this instead of spending another night outside. This comment is completely out of touch.
Nice a Wikipedia article. Where can I find any indication of comparative scale compared to any other nation, like I asked?

Just going by a blind guess and knowledge of the world, I guess it's pretty much correlated with economy and geopolitical dominance, so I'd expect America to be number one simply as a result of it's wealth and strategic dominance in the last century, and then China somewhere around the level of the rest of NATO or Russia or something (though I'm sure rapidly rising, which would explain the growing anxiety of the corporate mouthpieces in The Economist).
There are sufficient “loopholes” that would allow Western democracies to do this. The only difference is that China is forthright about what it does & is willing to do.

Look at the Assange fiasco for example, or Guantanamo Bay, or the use of rendition to allied states by the CIA, or sitting in on torture conducted by allies (recently in Yemen), etc.

Not to mention the complete disregard of international law when it comes to Israel, and in the same, hypocritical breath, repeatedly insisting that the Russians must follow international law (which they should).
> whatever it's doing

Even assuming that running the software implies my consent (which I would dispute), how do I make the decision about whether I should execute the software if I don't know what it is doing?

This all-or-nothing approach is also problematic. I should not have to allow the developer free rein to do whatever he wants, as a condition of using the software. This is why operating systems are slowly building granular permissions and consent checks.
Well recruiters are idiots for the most part:

1. I had a recruiter from Amazon reach out to me about “exciting opportunities” as an SDE on LinkedIn. The issue was that my profile showed that I was already working at AWS.

2. A recruiter from Google reached out to me about an Engineering Manager position. Not only did I not have any management experience on my profile, my current position then was in the consulting department (full time) at AWS - it wasn’t even officially software development

3. A recruiter from Meta reached out to me about a senior software engineer position in AI. Again, my profile clearly showed a bunch of no name CRUD developer jobs and then working in consulting

Recruiter outreach is no indication of careful targeted outreach
I have a similar pc and I use text-generation-webui and mostly exllama quantized models.

I also deploy text-generation-webui for clients on k8s with gpu for similar reasons.

Last I checked, llamafile / ollama are not as optimised for gpu use.

For image generation I moved from automatic webui to comfyui a few months ago - they're different beasts, for some workflow automatic is easier to use but for most tasks you can create a better workflow with enough comfy extensions.

Facefusion warrants a mention for faceswapping
That's quite naive consequentialism.
Just because you don’t like the stories doesn’t make it unfair.
I’ve always liked the visas, I have always been in favor of the visas. That’s why we have them,” Trump said by phone, referring to the H-1B program, which permits companies to hire foreign workers in specialty occupations
The americans had their own justifications for those actions that were supporter by a coalition of nations, and none of that was to conquer territory. China on the other hand is flatly trying to conquer territory and limit the freedoms of the people who live there afterwards. They are, in fact, the bad guys here.
It is certainly not solving the problem. It is probably perpetuating it. Without the other complementary life-critical facilities, nothing changes.

These are useful for solving one particular facet: people die from exposure in Toronto. If this did anything to address the actual problem, then there would be no homelessness problem in LA.

Quite a few cities have actually solved this problem. They provide housing and all of the additional services, like hygiene facilities, food, and security. Granted, they only solve it for certain cohorts, but it demonstrates that it is rather trivially solvable. That's going to lead to hot political quarreling, so it's a good place to stop.

There is no chance that these can provide the full spectrum of services required for a person to thrive. We absolutely can't handle the upkeep on 100,000 one-person boxes. We need to make the shelters better. Many are terrible, but there are better ones, and a lot of that comes down to who is working there. Everyone who is able should make time to volunteer, even just a few shifts, to see what it is and how it can be improved. (It's also a good way to meet people in your city.)
> It's dangerously close to the EA belief that it's actually OK to be a ruthless exec for a tobacco company, because you can do good things with your money that you wouldn't be able to do if you quit the job.

That's not an EA belief. While EAs have made arguments somewhat in this direction, being a tobacco exec is just incredibly harmful and no one should do it: https://80000hours.org/2016/01/just-how-bad-is-being-a-ceo-i...

(80000 Hours is the primary EA career advising organization)
I've been using HN long enough to know this kind of comment has been repeated since the old days. It's just a weird ad-hominin comment people make when they aren't used to disagreeing with the majority.
He's using Gumroad (which I use as well). Gumroad turned on tipping as an opt-out feature for all sellers around one or two months ago. If you had a product you were already selling on Gumroad, like I was, the tipping feature was automatically enabled for the product and you have to go in and manually turn it off.

I felt the same way you do about tipping for an info product, but I left mine on and people do use it; turning it off would be turning down extra income.
Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Jordan, Oman, Thailand, Vietnam. That's not counting those relations that aren't close nor adversarial.

The only authoritarian regimes not allied, nor neutral, with the US are Cuba, Iran, NK, Russia and Venezuela.

It's not present day but let's not forget the series of military genocidal dictarships supported, founded and allied by the US in south america in the second half of 20th century.
This was previously posted and subsequently flagged. I was unable to read it's comments.

While I'm not eager to engage the topic, I'm curious why was it flagged. Does anyone know?
I think that getting a good job nowadays requires having a strong referral.

The referral is not sufficient, but unless you have an MIT PhD in Machine Learning, or similarly rare and in-demand credential, it is necessary.
> Imagine walking around Memphis at midnight, alone and unarmed

Says it all about your biases that you seriously think this is actually a dangerous proposition in terms of real statistical risk.
We are a 50x improvement away from AI as smart as humans.

Similarly, we're only a 10x improvement away from having cars that cruise at Mach 2.
I did development work for casino bosses.

Clearly immoral. IMO more so than weapons.

I realy needed the job
Related:

Settings -> Siri -> Apps (Siri app access) -> [an app] -> Learn from this app

This is on by default for all apps and it “Allows Siri to learn from how you use [an app] to make suggestions across apps”. I found no global setting for all apps.

More details: https://support.apple.com/en-mn/guide/iphone/iph6f94af287/io...
There is a lot I want to do with LLMs locally, but it seems like we're still not quite there hardware-wise (well, within reasonable cost). For example, Llama's smaller models take upwards of 20 seconds to generate a brief response on a 4090; at that point I'd rather just use an API to a service that can generate it in a couple seconds.
Suchir’s blog for reference - https://suchir.net/fair_use.html
Interview with 2000s PC User [video]
Chimpanzees use stone tools to crack into nuts with a range of results
The article is interesting and your comment clearly expresses how it affected you. But please don't editorialize titles because we are all excited about what we submit to HN and original headlines tend to be better for the community.
The only thing you ever say is baseless criticisms of the intellectual prowess of HN and the media. Either justify these criticisms, accept we are the way we are, or leave.